music box
Example Sentences
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Aficionados will delight in minor details such as being close enough to touch the ghoulish monkey music box from the original, and being within breathing distance of the performers in these famous roles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025
René opens the music box, and a tinkling music begins to play, the same song heard long ago in his Damascus sitting room.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2024
They were found with two small bags holding clothes, a towel, a flashlight, two phones and a music box.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 16, 2023
The line is more shocking for the vaporous, ultra-femme falsetto in which she delivers it — as if the ballerina inside a music box opened her mouth and sang.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2023
In friskier moods, she performed lazy pirouettes, as though to the accompaniment of my own music box, which I always brought to the roof to keep me company.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
